Anthony Bourdain Left Brooklynites Full After Bringing ‘The Hunger’ Tour To BAM
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“Anthony Bourdain is the rockstar of food. From the time I was a teen, I wanted to be like him — he tells it like it is,” said Angelo Loukas. Loukas a chef, along with connoisseurs and cooks, foodies and followers, millennials and the mature packed the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House on Tuesday evening November 22, 2016 ready to consume all the legendary Bourdain had prepared.
“The Hunger,” Bourdain’s one man multi-city show opened last month in Boston and has wisely traveled to Brooklyn. The 60-year-old chef, author, producer, TV personality, and father of nine-year-old Ariane, educates the world on global culinary cuisine while trying to understand a diversity of cultures and peoples. He has eaten everything from tropical bugs to pork butt (literally) during his amazing seven seasons of the CNN series, “Parts Unknown.” Bourdain confesses to getting really sick three times during his most adventurous 16 year career.
He spoke nonstop for nearly an hour then opened the floor for questions and answers. He was personal, funny, profane, raw, real, and just a little political.
“There’s nothing more political than food,” he contends. “What we eat, why we eat, where we eat…I go by “Grandma’s rule” when I’m out. I eat what grandma serves.”
Bourdain also shared his personal favorite restaurant in Brooklyn.
“My favorite restaurant in Brooklyn would have to be [The Chef’s Table at] Brooklyn Fare. I’m the last person to talk about Brooklyn restaurants, but I had a damn good meal there.”
If you missed Bourdain in Brooklyn, check out his new book Appetites: A Cookbook; of course — a New York Times best seller. Bourdain, who says there’s nothing more powerful than the written word, has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. In his first cookbook, in more than ten years, Appetites shares the recipes to his personal favorite dishes.
A curious attendee wanted to know about his latest project, the Bourdain Market. A public marketplace curated by Bourdain and inspired by markets around the world is headed to Pier 57 in NYC sometime in 2019. “We’re carefully assembling a dream list of chefs, operators, street food and hawker legends from around the world in hopes of bringing them together in one New York City space,” Bourdain states on the market’s website.
We anxiously await the market’s grand opening and his next stop to parts unknown.
